VS Code crashes when showing/hiding or resizing GitHub Copilot chat window
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Description
* Frequently after a long chat session, if I hide the GitHub Copilot chat window, VS Code simply freezes and I have to restart. This can happen even if there is no ongoing chat.
* A similar thing happens when _resizing_ the chat window. Just now I resized the chat sidebar to as narrow as it would go while a chat was ongoing. VS Code froze (including the cursor, which was stuck with the horizontal "resize" pointer). Eventually I had to select "restart".
There are no steps to reproduce, because I never know when it's going to do this. I've seen it most often when I hide the chat sidebar.
```
Version: 1.130.0 (user setup)
Commit: 1b6a188127eeaf9194f945eb6eb89a657e93c54c
Date: 2026-07-22T14:55:04Z
Electron: 42.6.0
ElectronBuildId: 14623276
Chromium: 148.0.7778.280
Node.js: 24.18.0
V8: 14.8.178.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
```
This issue has been present for months over many, many releases.
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